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Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.

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Dorothea Du Bois: 27 May 1771

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27 May 1771

Songs from DDB 's musical drama The Magnet were sung at Marylebone Gardens , London.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
386

30 May 1771: A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all...

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30 May 1771

A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all the faults of French absolutist government to the influence of madame Du Barry (1746-93, mistress to the former monarch Louis XV) and to Marie Antoinette .
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
31
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Du Barry

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: June 1771

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June 1771

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote to John Wesley on the question of just how close Methodist women were to be permitted to come to actually preaching.
Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press, 1996.
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Ann Jebb: June-October 1771

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June-October 1771

AJ and her husband lived at Bungay in Suffolk, though John Jebb made several visits this year to London.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
31-3

By June 1771: Henry Mackenzie published The Man of Feeling,...

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By June 1771

Henry Mackenzie published The Man of Feeling, his most famous sentimental novel, whose hero observes with anguish the displayed sufferings of others.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
31 (1771): 482-3
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

18 June 1771: Tobias Smollett published his last novel,...

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18 June 1771

Tobias Smollett published his last novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.
Preston, Thomas R., and Tobias Smollett. “Introduction and Notes”. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, edited by O M, Jr Brack and O M, Jr Brack, University of Georgia Press, 1990.
xxi

Anna, Lady Miller : 30 June 1771

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30 June 1771

ALM wrote the last of her travel letters, from Turin in Italy. She had still ahead of her the prospect of a tour of ancient Roman remains at Lyons, Nimes, Orange,...

Jane Harvey: Probably just before 8 July 1771

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Probably just before 8 July 1771

JH was born at Gateshead, County Durham (just south of Newcastle upon Tyne).
This is the origin given by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The Feminist Companion identifies her with a different...

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 22 July 1771

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22 July 1771

Hester Thrale gave birth, after a long and hard labour, to another girl, Sophia, who delighted her by being large, healthy, and likely to live.
qtd. in
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Anne Hunter: 23 July 1771

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23 July 1771

Anne Home , aged about thirty, married John Hunter , surgeon, anatomist, and physiologist, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
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29 July 1771: The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus...

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29 July 1771

The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus in Uppsala to offer him biological specimens from New York State.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Thomas Gray: 30 July 1771

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30 July 1771

TG , poet, died at Cambridge; he was only fifty-four.
Gray, Thomas, and William, poet Collins. “Introduction”. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 9-13.
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Frances Brooke: By August 1771

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By August 1771

FB 's next translation from French was the abbé Claude Millot 's four-volume Elements of the History of England, including in volume three a brief essay on historiography.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
31 (1771): 361
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xlviii

1 August 1771: Richard Arkwright and David Thornley joined...

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1 August 1771

Richard Arkwright and David Thornley joined forces with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need to rent land on which to set up a factory by the River Derwent at Cromford in Derbyshire, so that Arkwright's...

Sir Walter Scot : 15 August 1771

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15 August 1771

Walter Scott , the future poet and novelist, was born in Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Phillis Wheatley: 18 August 1771

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18 August 1771

Having probably grown up a sun-worshipper, PW was baptised a Christian by the Rev. Samuel Cooper at the Old South Church in Boston; she was old enough to have made this decision for herself...

Dorothea Du Bois: 27 August 1771

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27 August 1771

Songs from DDB 's second musical drama, The Divorce, were sung at Marylebone Gardens , London.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
386

Mary Latter: By September 1771

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By September 1771

ML issued with her name, at Reading and London, Pro & Con; or, The Opinionists: An Ancient Fragment. Published for the Amusement of the Curious in Antiquity.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
32 (1771): 240

Tobias Smollett: 17 September 1771

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17 September 1771

TS , Scottish novelist, died at Monte Nero, Leghorn, Italy, where he was travelling in search of health; he had asthma, consumption, and a range of other complaints.
Spector, Robert Donald. Tobias George Smollett. Twayne, 1968.
chronology
Curelli, Mario. “Note”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xxxiv
, No. 1-2, Department of English, Temple University, 2001, pp. 114-15.
114

Charlotte Lennox: Between October and December 1771

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Between October and December 1771

CL 's son, George Louis (or Lewis), was born.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 2, Apr. 1971, pp. 165-86.
180n165

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: Shortly before 7 October 1771

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Shortly before 7 October 1771

Elizabeth Wolferstan (later Elizabeth Thomas ) was born at Berry House near Hartland in Devon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ann Eliza Bleecker: 11 October 1771

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11 October 1771

Poet AEB bore her daughter Margaretta Van Wyck Bleecker , who later, as Margaretta Faugeres, also became a notable writer.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Harris, Sharon M., editor. Women’s Early American Historical Narratives. Penguin, 2003.
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Grace Elliott: 19 October 1771

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19 October 1771

Grace Dalrymple , still in her teens, was married at St Pancras church, London, to John Elliott or Eliot (later Sir John), a wealthy, successful Scottish physician older than her father, and himself the...

Elizabeth Griffith: 11 November 1771

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11 November 1771

EG published with her name (Mrs. Griffith) her best-known novel, The History of Lady Barton, A Novel in Letters.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
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Dorothea Du Bois: By December 1771

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By December 1771

DDB published The Lady's Polite Secretary, or New Female Letter Writer: a manual on letter-writing, including the composition of epistolary verse.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
33 (1772): 88